Creative Stagnation
Credit: Todd Lappin This is insane: Legislation requiring cars and trucks, including electric vehicles, to have AM radios easily cleared
Sentences to ponder
We find that interventions (e.g., busing) that move children to a more favorable neighborhood have large effects but lose impact
Links 11/1/2025 | naked capitalism
The violence of facelifts Unherd 🚨3I/ATLAS Just Got Bluer Than the Sun and Nobody Knows Why 3I/ATLAS is changing fast.
Ice Barbie Kristi Noem on the Bleeding Edge of Trump Era Conflict
The MSM calls her ICE Barbie, but Kristi Noem, and the sprawling empire she rules as Secretary of the Department
Prediction Markets Are Very Accurate
alexmccullough at Dune has a very good post on the accuracy of Polymarket prediction markets. First, how do we measure
Reward and Retribution Is the New U.S. Policy for Latin America
During the press conference after the meeting with Zelensky, a reporter asked Trump how he would proceed with Venezuela, since
Creative Destruction in a Nutshell
A good figure from the Nobel Prize Foundation’s Scientific Background to the Mokyr, Aghion and Howitt Nobel. The figure shows
Democracy and Capitalism are Mutually Reinforcing
Many people argue that democracy is incompatible with capitalism but they differ on whether democracy will kill capitalism or whether
The Economics Nobel goes to Mokyr, Aghion and Howitt
The Nobel prize goes to Joel Mokyr, the economic historian of the industrial revolution and the growth theorists Phillippe Aghion
Links 10/11/2025 | naked capitalism
Surprise: Fog in March. Louis enjoys his morning kayaking YouTube (resilc). A soothing oldie. This Creamy Pasta Trick Just Earned